It was worth the trip.

No, you’re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.

…and her dreams that didn’t happen, that couldn’t have happened because she’d pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

One of us will just have to stay at the cottage to keep an eye on her.’ […]Let’s see if Widow Hazel wouldn’t take her in during the day, maybe teach her something useful -‘No,...

You know, sometimes you’ve got to trust the people you love. You’ve got to trust that if they’re good people, they’ll make good decisions.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

You can’t wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen....

I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.

Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They...

Fairy’s side note: Even people who don’t believe in magic really do.

Let me guess – you’re Grumpy?’He let out a humpf. ‘ And you would be too, if you’d just spent the last hour searching the forest for your wayward charge.’ He walked even faster. ‘We...

Charlotte: “It’s too bad they don’t give out diplomas for what you learn at the mall, because I could graduate with honors in that subject. No really. Since I’ve worked there, I’ve become an expert...

Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.’ And at our house we were force-fed it for...

So what were your favorite subjects in school?””School?” He leaned back in his chair as though he needed the extra space to think about it. “Probably math. It always made sense. Unlike English, economics, and...

I’ve pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don’t think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don’t follow some dream. Happiness doesn’t come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure....

I don’t care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.”Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next...

I bet you Cinderella didn’t get along with Prince Charming’s friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all,...

The problem was that I’d never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn’t allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They’re like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous— and cool like Johnny Depp.

Aren’t fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?…No, you’re confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

I can’t believe you just did that! Are you crazy?”I gripped the steering wheel tighter. “Why do people keep asking me that?”He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. “Who else keeps asking you...

Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn’t a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

I wound my arms around his neck and kissed him back, trying to capture this moment, to clasp it, so I could always remember what it felt like to hold him this way.

Don’t just read words,’ he would tell her as he held up the latest story, ‘devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren’t around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart. They know she’ll ask for help in putting...